https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div> Sat, 07 Jan 2017 12:03:58 -0500 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div> PO2 Private RallyPoint Member Sat, 07 Jan 2017 12:03:58 -0500 2017-01-07T12:03:58-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2225265&urlhash=2225265 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Putting up with misguided and outdated rules/regulations that have no place in a modern combat zone.<br /><br />For example... The AF had prohibitions against opposite genders being in each others living areas. My Army counter parts had no such restrictions. They would frequently meet to watch movies, play cards, dominoes, etc. By default the AF troops were excluded because of the opposite gender rule. Made for a VERY long and boring time when everyone else is blowing off steam and stress and you&#39;re relegated to the back corner of the MWR tent reading a book you care nothing about. MSgt Steven Holt, NRP, CCEMT-P Sat, 07 Jan 2017 12:25:52 -0500 2017-01-07T12:25:52-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2225337&urlhash=2225337 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The coming home and trying to explain to my family why I keep volunteering for every deployment I can especially my mother she is very unsupportive WO1 Private RallyPoint Member Sat, 07 Jan 2017 12:48:44 -0500 2017-01-07T12:48:44-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2225374&urlhash=2225374 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Coming home and seeing my fellow Americans in a whole new light. Capt Seid Waddell Sat, 07 Jan 2017 13:00:25 -0500 2017-01-07T13:00:25-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2225619&urlhash=2225619 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Shaving in cold water every morning. Ripped the shit outa my face on more than one morning MSgt Mark Bucher Sat, 07 Jan 2017 14:40:13 -0500 2017-01-07T14:40:13-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2226125&urlhash=2226125 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>being wet, hot, dog tired, pissed off, and all around miserable. The only thing that helped were your fellow brothers. Sgt Private RallyPoint Member Sat, 07 Jan 2017 18:26:18 -0500 2017-01-07T18:26:18-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2226156&urlhash=2226156 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This question should really be addressed to the dependents who are left behind. Ya deployments are tough and we put up with a lot at our deployed location but that&#39;s nothing compared to what families back home have to deal with.. Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Sat, 07 Jan 2017 18:38:26 -0500 2017-01-07T18:38:26-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2226192&urlhash=2226192 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>For me is was the time I missed watching my kids grow up while gone. When I was in and deployed there was no internet or cell phones. Depending on where you were deployed to it would take two or three weeks to get a letter from home and another two or three to get one back. Once we returned home it was really hard to see how much they had grown and changed while deployed. SFC Dennis A. Sat, 07 Jan 2017 18:55:29 -0500 2017-01-07T18:55:29-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2226312&urlhash=2226312 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Missing my kids growing up. Missed a lot of their &quot;milestones&quot;. Thankfully my wife loved taking pictures. But it still wasn&#39;t the same. <br />Returning CONUS and feeling like i was in a foreign country. PO1 Brian Austin Sat, 07 Jan 2017 19:43:11 -0500 2017-01-07T19:43:11-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2226494&urlhash=2226494 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>dealing with the anguish of losing some real American Heros, memories of these men will stay with me to my grave CSM Michael J. Uhlig Sat, 07 Jan 2017 21:08:18 -0500 2017-01-07T21:08:18-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2226991&urlhash=2226991 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Separation from family. MSgt Ediberto Leal Sun, 08 Jan 2017 00:54:07 -0500 2017-01-08T00:54:07-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2227781&urlhash=2227781 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>For me it was leaving the people I had trained with and served with during combat operations in Vietnam so long ago. SGT Philip Roncari Sun, 08 Jan 2017 08:05:01 -0500 2017-01-08T08:05:01-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2228470&urlhash=2228470 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>not seeing my family on the holidays, missing my daughters graduation from high school, and then coming home 4 months later to attend her funeral, that&#39;s been 8 years ago and it still with me, I cope better now with it, not much but all I have now are pictures MSG Private RallyPoint Member Sun, 08 Jan 2017 11:40:02 -0500 2017-01-08T11:40:02-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2232094&urlhash=2232094 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Coming home from Vietnam was one thing, getting bombed by the hippie freaks as we came under the golden gate bridge with paint bombs, having no one at the pier when we pulled in cause I lived on the east coast. Getting a call from the Red Cross that my Mother had just died and having too go one Emergency leave and getting spit on and called names in the Airports, and then being called baby killer by the people I went to school with and grew up with. so lovely... <br /><br />Even a peacetime Cruise, you do not know who to make friends with and who not to. We had a new Second in Command to sign aboard, The XO was a really friendly guy, made friends easily, went up on his first hop while in the Med. His wingman said they both went into a cloud bank, the wingman popped out on top, our XO could not be found. just lost him on Radar. Not enough fuel to Bingo, no report from the seatpan, no wreckage. We all know death in inevitable, but sometimes it comes too soon. PO2 Rev. Frederick C. Mullis, AFI, CFM Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:05:35 -0500 2017-01-09T13:05:35-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/with-all-the-hardships-and-experiences-of-a-deployment-what-do-you-feel-was-the-hardest-part-to-cope-with?n=2238201&urlhash=2238201 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Coming Home. CPO David Sharp Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:33:55 -0500 2017-01-11T09:33:55-05:00 2017-01-07T12:03:58-05:00